Seattle History: Building a City (1900-28)

December 31, 1975

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Delivering the mail, 1919: With the economic fortunes of the Boeing Airplane Co. teetering because of the loss of military contracts, William Boeing, right, and test pilot Eddie Hubbard made the first international mail flight from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C, in March 1919. The men are on a ramp on Lake Union next to a Model C seaplane, with Boeing holding the mail.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

11of24

Delivering the mail, 1919: With the economic fortunes of the Boeing Airplane Co. teetering because of the loss of military contracts, William Boeing, right, and test pilot Eddie Hubbard made the first international mail flight from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C, in March 1919. The men are on a ramp on Lake Union next to a Model C seaplane, with Boeing holding the mail.